Spewing chips as a calling station

[akira]

This hand from tonight's PS 20K guaranteed. I was doing pretty well until this hand, but ended up finishing in 55th place. I seem to freeze up later in the tournament, especially when some draw is involved, I turn into a calling station. Also this was near 90th place if I remember right, with w/ 81st place being in the money. What should I have done here instead of my calling station mess up?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t3000 (9 handed)

MP1 (t68191)
MP2 (t39145)
MP3 (t65653)
CO (t42730)
Button (t72770)
SB (t135751)
Hero (t73205)
UTG (t19730)
UTG+1 (t91450)

Preflop: Hero is BB with T/images/graemlins/spade.gif, T/images/graemlins/club.gif.
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, MP3 calls t3000, CO folds, Button calls t3000, SB folds, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t15000</font>, MP3 calls t12000, Button folds.

Flop: (t34200) A/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif, K/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="CC3333">MP3 bets t10000</font>, Hero calls t10000.

Turn: (t54200) J/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="CC3333">MP3 bets t20000</font>, Hero calls t20000.

River: (t94200) 7/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, MP3 checks.

Final Pot: t94200

[Skunkbush]

I would have raised him to see if his hand was legit. If he called, and bet on the turn, then I would have folded. Only reason to stay in is to hope that another spade comes and your 10 /images/graemlins/spade.gif holds up. What did he end up having btw?

[betgo]

I would fold. What did he call your raise with? He almost certainly has you beat with an A, K or overpair.

You could reraise, but it would really be a bluff. He might fold hands like KQ or JJ.

[akira]

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I would have raised him to see if his hand was legit. If he called, and bet on the turn, then I would have folded. Only reason to stay in is to hope that another spade comes and your 10 /images/graemlins/spade.gif holds up. What did he end up having btw?

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Yeah, I would have auto folded to his bet if the three spades weren't there, but with the spades I felt like I had a decent flush draw. On the turn I also picked up an inside straight draw. I would also have folded to a pot sized bet, but with his 1/3 of the pot bet I was less sure of what to do as I had the odds but it was a significant portion of my stack.

I think my options were:

a) Bet/Push on the flop representing a made flush
b) Checkraise his bet w/ a 20K/30K bet or push
c) Bet the turn representing a straight
d) Fold to his flop bet

What do you guys think of these? Also if I wasn't close to the money (81st place) I would have considered pushing on the flop, is that too aggressive?

Oh, and what do you guys think about my pf raise?

Here is what he had:
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ATo for a top pair.
I have a feeling he would have called my raise w/ his Ace, definitely would have called a raise on the turn with top pair + inside straight draw. Not sure about a flop push, I would have been afraid of the spade w/ ATo

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[Kirkrrr]

He called a huge raise coming from the SB, so he had to put you on about four possible hands, worst of them being AK. I'd bet about 2/3xPot on the flop and check it thru, or fold to a raise if not helped.

The way you played it, I think, it was fairly obvious that you considered yourself behind after the flop and gave him the control of the hand.

Kirk R.

[betgo]

Actually, with the draw, the flat call on the flop was probably good. The call on the turn was more marginal.